Glenn Beck signs off from Fox News: ‘This show has become a movement; it doesn’t belong on TV’By Dylan StablefordGlenn Beck began his final show on Fox News where he'll be for the foreseeable future: outside the building--and not on TV.

"We've done some amazing things together," Beck, flanked by at least one bodyguard, told viewers as he showed them the view of the set from the street, noting the bulletproof glass that was installed "for a myriad of reasons..."

Glenn Beck has some good charisma and that gets him by, but the problem is that he's just hawking talking points, not actual arguments and facts, and the people he's preaching to are willing to eat up his stuff with a spoon, unquestioned.

I'm glad his show is done but I'm not looking forward to his next phase of celebrity.

Glenn Beck has some good charisma and that gets him by, but the problem is that he's just hawking talking points, not actual arguments and facts, and the people he's preaching to are willing to eat up his stuff with a spoon, unquestioned.

I'm glad his show is done but I'm not looking forward to his next phase of celebrity.

Yes, I agree that Beck has some intelligence that always seems to start out going somewhere, but going nowehere as he "hawks old talking points" and presenting hypotheticals with no "real" facts.

But, I believe that his hypothetical situations deserve some merit, it not 100% merit.

Since we seem to be repeating history more than we are re-writing it (no big suprise there) Beck is saying that there are those on both sides of the aisle ready to resurrect the past and marry it to modern attitudes to make the world a more dangerous place, and profit from it as WE wind up paying for it thru their deployment of the hypothetical situations he presents.

A warning from history, of sorts.

However, as to "eating up his hype" there are those in the Olbermann and Matthews camps who do the same thing, and since this is the media, that will never change.

Much as I love the idea of Glenn Beck embarking on some quixotic Man Who Would Be King quest, the real reason is probably more prosaic. Did he not get that cost of living pay increase he was hoping for? In American culture, the only other place for political commentators is talk radio. Talk radio is a big step down from Fox News.

Godspeed you, Beck Emperor! Bitter rants from a position of angry obscurity are always mildly amusing for a few minutes.

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Every dead body that is not exterminated becomes one of them. It gets up and kills. The people it kills, get up and kill.

My understanding is Beck had declining ratings and some of his accusations have become so wild (the Islamofascistcommunist conspiracy) that the right wingers at Fox consider him an embarrassment and wanted him to go. The combo made it happen.

Much as I love the idea of Glenn Beck embarking on some quixotic Man Who Would Be King quest, the real reason is probably more prosaic. Did he not get that cost of living pay increase he was hoping for? In American culture, the only other place for political commentators is talk radio. Talk radio is a big step down from Fox News.

Godspeed you, Beck Emperor! Bitter rants from a position of angry obscurity are always mildly amusing for a few minutes.